THE HONOURABLE SMT. JUSTICE JUVVADI SRIDEVI CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.674 of 2025

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This Criminal Revision Case has been filed by the petitioner-accused No.1 seeking to set aside the impugned order dated 19.01.2024 passed in CRL.M.P.No.2991 of 2023 in C.C.No.10577 of 2020 by the learned XII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, FAC XV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad (hereinafter referred to as ‘the learned trial Court’), whereby the application filed under Section 451 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’), seeking permanent release of Passport bearing No. R0895673 of the petitioner-accused No.1, was dismissed.

02. Heard Sri Anitha Raghavula, learned counsel for the petitioner-accused and Sri M.Ramachandra Reddy, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State-

respondent. Perused the record.

03. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that, without any direction from the learned trial Court, the Police seized the passport of the petitioner during the course of investigation and deposited the same before the learned trial Court. The said act of the Police is against the principle laid down by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Suresh